FIRST EDITION 2ND PRINTING
Hip Hop Immortals Volume One Hardcover – August 10, 2002 by Bonz Malone For Immo
Hip Hop Immortals Platinum Edition Second Printing
This coffee-table book contains 272 pages of stunning and provocative photos of the 100 most influential artists in hip-hop. The oversized pages measure 11" by 14" and the book weighs a staggering seven pounds. Hip Hop Immortals Volume One Includes an array of images ranging from founding fathers Kurtis Blow and Run-D.M.C to pop icons Notorious B.I.G, Jay-Z, P. Diddy and Tupac Shakur. Hip-Hops finest are revealed through the lenses of forty of todays most talented and celebrated photographers including David LaChapelle, Christian Witkin, Mark Seliger, Michel Comte, Danny Clinch, Jonathan Mannion, Piotr Sikora, Jesse Frohman, Ernie Paniccioli, Matthew Dean, Dana Lixenberg, Sante Dorazio, Janette Beckman, Michael Lavine and Max and Nitin Vadukul. These challenging images are matched by the insightful and fluid words of hip-hop historian Bonz Malone.
What makes this book so unique is the way in which creators, designers, subjects, photographers and writers came together to create the vision that has become Hip Hop Immortals. Immortal Brands chose the final indelible images from a vast collection of photos submitted from over five hundred photographers from New York to Paris. The images that were captured are in fact "Immortal", everlasting, timeless and eternal. The books design concept was masterminded by Giovanni C. Russo and his design firm, No. 11. Russos client list includes designs and campaigns for The Gap, John Bartlett, Yohji Yamamoto, MaxMara, Club Manaco and Valentino. Giovannis book list includes; Albert Watsons Maroc, Deborah Tubervilles Studio St Petersburg and Max Vadukuls self titled book MAX.
